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• kirakira666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.

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  • Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if there are safe guards to stop a bot army from impacting the discourse, or if it’s just because it’s a less known platform.

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    • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight of e.g. IPs used to create accounts.

      Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.

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    • workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      there isnt. but no one cares about this place to infect it

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  • inari@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’ll only hold true while the platform is not popular, unfortunately 

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    • Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think the platform will ever be popular. Picking an instance is a big enough barrier to entry to stop most people.

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  • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    there is much astroturfing of russian policy on lemmy

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      is it astroturing it just a lot of smug young ideologues sitting in their basement blaming capitalism for their lack of happiness?

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• disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  higher barrier of entry = a higher % of the posts are made by intelligent people.

  obviously it’s still massively outweighed by the stupid shit, I’m just saying I see it more than I saw it on reddit.

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  • boomlandjenkins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Absolutely the truth for most Fediverse platforms. It takes cognitive effort to join and get started.

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• FrowingFostek@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It feels less toxic here, or maybe I give less of a shit. I also enjoy the fact that I don’t get ads.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yes. No ads is nice!

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Communism

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not even a communist, but I upvoted this comment. Some may be insufferable, but the left slant here is refreshing. Not even talking just about political discussions, there’s just an overall level of empathy, logic and rationality here.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re not wrong.

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  • sveltecider@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s tons of liberalism on here too but I guess you can expect that with it becoming more popular.

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Moderation: choosing when to ban people or not, and acting on it promptly.
  • Blocking people, since you can block communities (needed to use a 3rd party app to actually do this on reddit).
  • Filtering out/organising porn, seperwting it from SFW content (Reddit tricks you into seeing porn all the time but lemmy holds it on seperate instances.)
  • less addictive design
  • comment formatting is made easy and seems to have more options.
  • honestly has more soul and more polite interactions. Reddit is good in places but not consistently/overall.
  • Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doesn’t demand you install its app, browser is fine.

    I wish I knew how to do the heart emoji …

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lemmy doesn’t have emoji reactions, you need to be on a piefed instance to do that

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You need to put two spaces at the end of a line to get a proper line break
    It’s an odd quirk of markdown.

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    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I actually had everything formatted correctly. Following your comment I did try and add more gaps to make the whole thing more readable/pleasant for people, but nothing changed in its appearance. Sorry if it’s hard to read

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gender bending Linux stuff.

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Definitely gets the not being a raging transphobic cesspool over reddit.

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?

  I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.

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• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Allowing me to post

  Also fewer incels.

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  • workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i never saw incels on reddit. what subs did you go to?

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    • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      r/incels

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    • Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They like the women only subs

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Still plenty of misogyny around unfortunately tho

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• ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  3rd party apps for browsing

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  • yyyesss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the real reason we’re all here

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This place is what red 20 years ago

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, shortly before the Digg exodus was reddit’s best period imo

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it was still a fun site through at least the first Place so I’d say peak was post-Digg

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• pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh, here’s another. I’ve actually never had “the site” go down, since I moved here. Being federated, most of Lemmy is up, even when a single instance goes down.

  My home instance went down once, so I just read along on another instance until it came back up.

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Make a lemmy.world account if you want the “site going down all the time” experience.

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• Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Superiority complex.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.

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• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly, not much. It feels like Reddit Lite 10 years ago

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• Nikokin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Federate

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  UX if not UI

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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• scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like folks are a lot more willing to be polite and have a discussion versus an argument. Granted, I suspect the federation process and finding a host helps with that.

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• mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly everything other than variety and scale of communities. It’s not as big of a compliment as it sounds like though - Reddit is almost unspeakably shitty. Pay a visit to the front page or whatever they call it now and be greeted by nothing but ragebait, hornybait, gender war content, political discussion with zero critical or individual thinking, and 500 popular communities that are completely undifferentiated because they form a singular bland monoculture circle jerk that just repackages the day’s hot topic in whatever shoehorned way it can into every subreddit (Lemmy is starting to do this too though yay…). The only difference between it and tiktok is the UI tbh

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    this comment is poetry.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The ability to hide scores and sitter entirely by new

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The only things it DOESN’T do better is have a large number of users and has the same problems with poor moderation (because they are both just randos with no real checks or balances to their modicum of power so it’e very easy to abuse).

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• GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Default comment sort. I stopped commenting on reddit because no one ever replied or voted, so I assume no one saw them. Here, there is more likelihood of interaction. I assume that’s because comments are sorted not by overall count by default.

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• razen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is less addictive.

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  • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think that the relative lack of content is actually a feature for this reason - sometimes I open Lemmy out of habit, but I see the same content and go do something more worthwhile instead.

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    • razen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Absolutely, even tho I would like to have more like minded communities and active engagement, I don’t actively have an issue with it being not.

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• pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The !superbowl@lemmy.world. No doute.
  Crossposting from another fediware. Can’t do that outside the fediverse, of course.

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• Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  3rd party apps.

  Reddit apps addicted me to ad free content delivered in the way Eternity for lemmy does, and that’s no longer available for reddit.

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• forestbeasts@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The UI is just way, way, WAY less obnoxious.

  I do wish it had the niche communities though. Stuff for individual games, etc.

  – Frost

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• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The mods are significantly less arbitrary in enforcing rules, with the exception of the instances that we all know. There are still some goofy exceptions, but by and large the mods are less power trippy.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Literally everything except having the plethora of niche subs.

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